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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Let’s begin, as I’m fond of doing, with a question. Who is being described here? This ancient Greek poet, associated with the island of Lesbos, is regarded by some as the founder of lyric poetry. However, little of their poetry has survived, so we know them more by their ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Penance’ has everything we expect from a quintessential Saki story: cruel and borderline feral children, misunderstood animals, and some of the wittiest prose ever committed to paper. If you’ve never read Saki before, I previously compiled a list of ten of my favourite stories of his, though ten ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Robinson Crusoe probably has more misconceptions surrounding it than just about any other novel in English literature. For a start, it’s often claimed it was the first novel (it wasn’t). It’s sometimes claimed, with a little more nuance, that it was the first English novel (it wasn’t). It’s also ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) is the first substantial sonnet sequence in English literature. Although there had been earlier collections that featured sonnets (George Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers, published in 1573, being perhaps the most notable), and Anne Locke’s religious Meditation of a Penitent S...

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